August 01, 2015, 8:20AM

The film stars Nicolas Cage as a disgraced New Orleans congressman struggling to resurrect his political career in the wake of the BP oil spill. Batt plays a deep-pocketed oil-industry lobbyist trying to purchase Cage's influence. Full story »

June 01, 2015, 6:36PM

This past Sunday, David Pons and Lauré Sica opened their art- and antiques-filled French Quarter home to a stage a salon-esque soiree for Le Petit Theatre's production of "Merrily We Roll Along." Full story »

May 18, 2015, 12:25PM

April 27, 2015, 12:28PM

He talked with the website about attitudes toward gay people in Baton Rouge -- Batt is openly gay, and his "Mad Men" character, Sal Romano, struggles with his own identity -- and what his expectations are for his character on "Scream." Full story »

August 21, 2014, 8:55AM

Winnie Bingham Quinzi's memories of Pontchartrain Beach were formed in childhood, and they remain vivid more than five decades later, an amalgam of vivid colors, tastes and smells from a realm that doesn't exist anymore except in memories like hers. "My visual memory exhibits the rainbows of neon lights amid the stark yellow contrast of the soft-ice-cream stand," she... Full story »

December 17, 2012, 6:02PM

"So many of us in New Orleans already eat and drink like the world is coming to an end tomorrow and when it doesn't, we don't have to change anything. At its heart it's the same benevolent nihilism all over again." - sportscaster Ron Swoboda reacting to the impending Mayan apocalypse. (Photo by Chris Granger)

December 17, 2012, 6:02PM

The Acro-Cats are not showing any particular oncoming Mayan apocalypse anxiety at this time, trainer Samantha Martin said. In fact they seem kind of lazy. But, she said, they might not have picked up on the coming catastrophe just yet.